How do you route to El Cerrito from San Ramon?

It's usually a 40 to 45 minute run from San Ramon, I-580 or Highway 24 across to I-80. We pair El Cerrito with Berkeley and Richmond on the same Inner East Bay day, so there's almost always a window available, with a written arrival time once it's booked.

The house belongs to my parents and I'm handling this from out of town. Can I book it?

Yes. You book, we diagnose for $99, and you get a written quote you can forward wherever it needs to go. We're glad to talk directly with whoever is approving the work if they have questions.

How do I find out which company actually built my Kenmore?

Open the fresh food door and look for the sticker on the side wall or ceiling. The first three digits of the model number tell you the source: 106 means Whirlpool, 795 means LG, 253 means Frigidaire. Text us that full number and we can often quote likely parts before we show up.

KENMORE · EL CERRITO

Service · All Kenmore Models

Kenmore Refrigerator & Freezer Repair · El Cerrito, CA

Kenmore refrigerator repair across El Cerrito, from hillside family homes to the San Pablo Avenue flats.

$99 diagnostic (credited toward the repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Kenmore in El Cerrito

Kenmore in El Cerrito kitchens.

El Cerrito has a lot of long-held family homes, houses bought decades back that have never left the family, and plenty of those still have their original kitchen with a Kenmore fridge that's been running for thirty or forty years. Kenmore was only ever a label though. LG, Whirlpool, and Frigidaire built the actual machine, so the model number tells me what's inside far more than the badge does.

The hillside homes off Moeser Lane and Barrett Avenue add their own wrinkle. A lot of those ranches and split-levels were built into the slope with a compact original kitchen that was never meant to hold a full-depth fridge, so the unit gets wedged in with barely any clearance and runs hotter than it should. Down in the flats near San Pablo Avenue, the stucco bungalows tend to have a little more room, but the appliances are just as old.

We schedule El Cerrito seven days a week from San Ramon. $99 diagnostic credited to the repair, written quotes you can forward to a family member or property manager, 90-day warranty on the repair, one year on inverter boards.

Water and ice systems

The water inlet valve, a common fridge leak.

Every fridge with a dispenser or ice maker has a water inlet valve. The fittings can leak under the cabinet, or the solenoid fails and the dispenser and ice maker stop getting water.

Laundry

How to spot a bad washer drain pump.

LG and Samsung washer drain pumps side by side. When a washer will not drain or hums at the end of a cycle, this small pump is the usual suspect, and the two brands fail in different ways.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Evaporator fan whine in tight hillside kitchen installs. A Kenmore that screeches or clicks from the freezer and goes quiet when the door opens has a dying evaporator fan motor. The cramped original kitchens up off Moeser and Barrett run these fans hot, which shortens their life. It's an inexpensive part on Whirlpool built 106 units and I usually have it on the van.
Defrost drain ice in decades old top freezers. El Cerrito's long-held family homes are full of 253 and 106 top freezers from decades back, and their classic failure is a frozen defrost drain. Water sheets under the crispers or drips through to whatever's below, which is usually how the family first notices. Clearing the drain and adding a drain strap stops the repeat visits.
Start relay failures that sound like a dead compressor. Click, pause, click, every few minutes. On a fridge this old that's usually a failed start relay or overload, not a dead compressor. I test the windings directly, and a fifty dollar relay kit often brings a twenty or thirty year old fridge back to life.

Models we service

Kenmore product lines.

Refrigerators (LG-built and Whirlpool-built)
Top-freezer
Side-by-side
French-door

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$99

Diagnostic visit. Credited toward the repair.
Written

3 months standard, 1 year on inverter boards, up to 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
CSLB

#1136642. Bonded and insured. We file warranty paperwork when applicable.

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Kenmore jobs we have closed.

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FAQ

Kenmore in El Cerrito questions, answered.

How do you route to El Cerrito from San Ramon?

It's usually a 40 to 45 minute run from San Ramon, I-580 or Highway 24 across to I-80. We pair El Cerrito with Berkeley and Richmond on the same Inner East Bay day, so there's almost always a window available, with a written arrival time once it's booked.
The house belongs to my parents and I'm handling this from out of town. Can I book it?

Yes. You book, we diagnose for $99, and you get a written quote you can forward wherever it needs to go. We're glad to talk directly with whoever is approving the work if they have questions.
How do I find out which company actually built my Kenmore?

Open the fresh food door and look for the sticker on the side wall or ceiling. The first three digits of the model number tell you the source: 106 means Whirlpool, 795 means LG, 253 means Frigidaire. Text us that full number and we can often quote likely parts before we show up.

Need Kenmore service in El Cerrito?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.